A character from Tech Sector, which is in the process of being changed from a futuristic ninja story to a futuristic psychological horror/ninja story.

Naomi is one of the "Lost" children who disappeared when holes in the ghost world began appearing in Kohaku city. It is said that six youths simply vanished, only to be seen again later in dreams and delusions of a nightmarish nature. With the disappearance of these six, an increase in unexplainable murders was apparent. The Kohaku defense force (Holly's superiors) re-studied the ancient scrolls and came to the conclusion that the ghosts of these youths were returning to kill people in the living world. All of the six children were known for having some kind of illness or issue, so the spirits possessing them could have been feeding off the feelings of hatred within them to create monsters out of these youths.

After her first encounter with Sighanu, Holly is ordered to investigate some of the murder sites the next day to see if she can find any more clues. She meets a boy detective named Rhyss who appears to be working alongside her for this case. At first Holly finds it unusual that Rhyss could be a detective at his age, but upon seeing his skills, she accepts it.

The first Lost one Holly encounters is Naomi. Holly soon realizes that her skills and ninjitsu magic are no match for the supernatural powers of this menacing little girl. Instead of fighting this unstoppable force, Holly does all she can to escape the haunted butchery before she becomes another statistic. However, Rhyss insists on staying behind. It seems he knows something about Naomi that Holly doesn't.

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NAOMI

Naomi used to be a simple elementary school student who lived a few yards down from Holly's lawyer office. Holly may have seen her once or twice in passing. Although she was mentally gifted, Naomi had problems with her eyes, and would frequently experience twitching or visions of things that weren't there. She was also colourblind. Her family wasn't rich enough to afford cybernetic implants for her eyes to fix this problem, so she often sat on the swings in the schoolyard, staring off into the distance and trying to correct her vision. The fact that she couldn't read books on her own made her very depressed at times, because she loved books with a passion, asking her parents and friends to read to her frequently.

When the holes in the otherealm opened up, Naomi was approached by her evil counterpart: A mirror ghost. It offered her the chance to fix her eyes. Naomi accepted, and the demon took her soul, taking her body as a host and turning her into a murderous psychological ghost being capable of releasing the dark thoughts and monsters within her own mind. Naomi's victims will find themselves hallucinating, unable to focus, and threatened by shadowy creatures that could or could not be real. Naomi herself uses a crowbar in combination with her abilities to disappear, spot teleport, walk on surfaces and project images of herself. When she appears, it is usually sudden and accompanied by a shrill screeching noise followed by voices reading text from storybooks. These voices grow louder as Naomi approaches her target. She is also invulnerable to attacks from the living.

Also, if you look towards her left, you should be able to see her Mirror hovering there. Each one of the Lost ones have a different Mirror, it doesn't necessarily look anything like their physical bodies. If a person can somehow destroy a Mirror, the spirit of the Lost one will be set free and the ghost will cease to exist. However, Mirrors exist as physical entities only in the otherealm, and the only people who can enter the otherealm directly are those who are already possessed by ghosts...hmmmm.

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This was made in Photoshop and took me about four hours to do the colouring. I sketched the shading beforehand to get that gritty sort of look that's popular in survival horror games.

I was mainly inspired by the Silent Hill series, which in my opinion, is a great horror game because it's scary, but it doesn't overdo the gore. Most of the blood in SH games is on the walls or dripping from ceilings and stuff like that. It's not spurting around in a gross way like it does in Resident Evil.

Perhaps sometime in the future, I might be able to make the first survival horror game with anthro characters...would that work, I wonder? By detaching the characters from humanity, it could be a more alien experience, being more animalistic and perhaps slightly more or less frightening.

I've finally settled on a style for Tech Sector! (which is probably going to be renamed once I can think of a better title)

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Tech Sector(working title) is (c) Ryanide 2006/7. Do not distribute this image.

..this doesn't need a mature filter, does it? There's only a little bit of blood on her hand.